If it were a modern engine it probably wouldn't get as good of mileage as modern engines need to conform to modern emission standards, also the dual SU carbs on that engine were know for providing quite good fuel metering, but were a bit slot to react to increased throttle. Depending on what year his cars is it may not have to comply with any, or very little. Also there is a very active after market for those old British cars, and such things as 5 speed transmissions, full coil over suspension kits, 4 wheel disk breaks (including a bigger rotors than the front disk break only cars had), better cams, roller rockers, better heads, headers, fuel injection, plus a bunch of other stuff I am probably forgetting. The A-series engines were in production until 2000 and were very underdeveloped.
The biggest reasons for the better mileage in the mini would be that it is lighter by a lot, it probably weight less than half of your Maxima. Depending on what year the mini is it has only limited or no emission controls. The mini has a very small engine, probably either the 1098cc or 1275cc A-series. Also the SU carbs on it are known for providing very good fuel metering, but weren't the quickest to respond to increased throttle. They didn't have power accessories, and if it is like my midget things like a horn were an option (mine doesn't have one). Those old A-series engines were very underdeveloped and I have read of people doing some crazy things with those little British cars like getting close to 200hp out of them, or converting them to hyper mileage cars and getting close to 70 mpg. I love seeing the races where they go and put a bunch of pre 75 midgets, sprites, minis, MGAs and morris minors all on the track and race them. You really can see that those are very capable little cars.
Sounds like my oldest son. He is only 2 and a half but loves to help dad "fix" things. He has discovered how to use the pop rivet gun, which is useful since the project of late has been putting in the new floor pans in my 68' MG Midget project car so I have actually gotten him to fix things instead of just pretending. Last summer he wanted to "fix" things which was basically give him a screw driver or wrench and let him poke some old crusty part and pretend, but this year he wants to actually help.
Hell I drove my dad's race car when I was 12. At the time it was a 75' Nova with a Chevy 350. It had about 300hp and ran low 14's in the quarter mile. I never did terribly well racing it, but it was fun as hell when you are 12. That was years ago and the minimum age at that time was 12 to drag race. I think now they go as low as eight, but I think it is from 8 to 14 you race the junior dragsters which are basically small dragsters with a motor cycle engine that run an eighth mile instead of the full quarter.
Unfortunately it wasn't an engineering class but was offered through the industrial arts department (i.e shop class) so I was the only person who had a science and technology background as the rest of the class was the standard jocks and grease monkeys. It would have been better if it was a class of other science dorks as they would have been open to ideas like more usage of composites.
It wasn't the dork squad as the class was mostly made up of the standard jock shop class crowd. I was the only one who really had a science and technology background as most of other guys were pretty much good a turning a wrench, some weren't even good at that. The worst thing was trying to convince that group that a composite frame would work and would weigh much less than a standard welded aluminum frame. This was early on for carbon fiber so that was out of the price range for a public high school, but fiberglass was. I never did convince them that it would work.
When I was in high school our school participated in these events. The competition was held up at Brainerd International Raceway and there were 2 categories, modified and unmodified. In the unmodified class you couldn't make any engine modifications but everything else was open. The engine you got was some small 4 stroke Briggs & Stratton. The team would then build the chassis and body around the engine. The goal being to create as light and aerodynamic vehicle as possible while reducing rolling resistance. Cars in the this call would typically get several hundred MPG. In the modified category you could also modify the engine, and modify was a pretty loose term given some of the mods that I had seen where about the only original parts were the block and pull string. Cars in this category would be up near or above 1000 MPG.
Now when actually competing you went and did one full trip on the track if your car passed inspection. You got a metered amount of fuel (I think it was about 1 quart of ethanol) and would roll the car out to the starting line. You would then be given the go ahead and the driver would use the pull string to start the engine (there was no clutch) so they would actually start to pull the vehicle up to speed. Once the engine started the car would reach speed at which point the engine is stopped and the vehicle coasts to a stop and then they cycle begins again until you complete your single lap. Once completed the remaining fuel is measured and you MPG is calculated.
Also female drivers are very common for these types of cars because they are smaller and lighter than guys. Typically our driver would be one of the team members girlfriend who was a gymnast or on the dance line. The passenger compartment would be built for them to drive it so as to cut down on as much weight as possible.
Your aren't off by much on the speed. In my high school we participated in events like this. I was the only one in the class that wasn't the the standard shop class kid as this was an elective offered only to juniors and seniors (you could take it all year both years). The competition was held up at Brainerd International Raceway and basically the engines have a pull string (think lawn mower) to start the vehicle and don't have multiple gears, so you pull start the vehicle and once up to speed shut the engine off and coast to a stop, then repeat until you are around the track. The fast ones top out at about 15mph.
I would also like to see some consumer protection and recourse for the customer who falls well below the averages, lets say 1 standard deviation, since they are not getting what they are paying for. This will never happen because this data would actually help the consumer and create a more free and open market for competition since large corporations prefer to have uninformed consumers.
Ok that makes sense. I do agree that most people consider any steel core ammo to be armor piercing eventhough alot of it, especially Chinese 7.62x39, just has mild steel cores as a cost saving measure. I mostly shoot hunting ammo either 154gr soft point 7.62x39 or 203gr soft point boat tail 7.62x54r, but that cheep Chinese surplus is tempting when you just want to waste some ammo on cans or paper.
Well no one was shot, only the ground. Eventhough the weapon unexpectedly discharged because it was being handled in a safe manner, maintain proper muzzle control, the bullet went in a perfectly safe direction into the rather swampy dirt a few feet out into the ravine we were shooting into.
Up to and including.30-06 still wouldn't include the.300 Winchester magnum. I also wonder how it would hold up to a.270 given that that is just a faster necked down.30-06.
This is why I hate the whole concept of warning shots, or brandishing a weapon. It is a great way to get someone hurt or killed.
I try to explain to people who don't know much about guns that I don't believe in accidental shooting in 99.99% of cases because is actually negligence. The remaining few are truly accidental shooting even once I had a firearm accidentally discharge, but because it is pointed down nothing bad happened other than the dirt got shot. The way it happened was some friends and I were shooting empty pop cans up north and ran the SKS out of ammo. When empty the bold is automatically held open so you can put more ammo in using a stripper clip. I put the safety on, reloaded, and pulled the bold back to close it. We the bolt closed it chambered a round (like it should), but because we had freezing rain (it was only about 25F out side) the firing pin froze forward and struck the primer discharging the round even with the safety on. This only proves why you should only point firearms at things you intend to shoot (or in this case a safe direction).
You don't even need to go all the way up to the.50BMG, any standard full power hunting round will do. Think things like.30-06,.308,.303, 7.62x54r, 300 Winchester magnum. Regular police body armor won't stop things like the.223 (5.56x45), 7.62x39, or.30-30 which are all fairly common hunting round for things up to white tail deer. Even S.W.A.T. armor would have issues with some of those especially with multiple shots fired. Add to the mix shotgun slugs which even if they are stopped by the armor (very unlikely if sabots are being used) will still cause serious damage. With this about all body armor is good against is are the common handgun rounds. The big handgun rounds offer power close to that of a rifle and would be almost* a hard for body armor to deal with. Luckily for law enforcement most criminals use handguns that are.38acp, 9mm, or.45acp as these are common for a semi auto pistol.
The collection of rain water from the capitol building being banned might also have to do with water rights, since I know that it is big deal in in that area of the country and those laws can be pretty bizarre as well.
Wow I had never head of that before. I thought Minnesota was bad for fees/taxes. At least here you just get the ticket (the base speeding ticket is like $120 or something) and it has your court date/pay by date and you are done. New York doesn't surprise me, but Georgia does. Don't let the Minnesota legislature know about this otherwise they will probably institute a police fee on all tickets to try and close the budget gap.
What kind of awful traffic tickets are you getting and where are you getting them so I know to avoid that area? When I have gotten them it has always been you pay $X by date Y where date Y is your court date.
You are basically correct. There are some exceptions but basically at will employment means that either party can terminate employment at any time.
Also you aren't the only person I have run across who didn't really grasp at will employment. At my previous job (a French company with a US branch) one of the new french employees came over to the US for about 2 months to work with our team and develop new marketing material for potential US customers. While here one of our people in our office was fired. He really was dead weight and spent most of his day burning DVDs rented from Netflix. This shocked her as this is unheard of in France. Thus we had to explain at will employment. The boss was a French guy, and you really had to screw up to be fired, but I have found this to be true at most companies, unless they are going to a re-org, or downsizing. As a side note even for someone who is fluent in English but it isn't their first or primary language "Who's on first" takes a lot explaining for them to understand why it is funny.
I believe that the Geek Squad existed before that, of course I could be wrong. At that point they weren't part of best buy but were an actual respectable company that did good work. I know in 97 I had them actually repair the screen on my laptop (a used dell with a 486 dx4 processor with 36MB ram). They actually disassembled it and fixed the screen which had a large orange rectangle in the upper right corner. I think it only cost like $25 or $30 at the time.
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There are probably others that should be included as well but those were the first ones that came to my mind.
If it were a modern engine it probably wouldn't get as good of mileage as modern engines need to conform to modern emission standards, also the dual SU carbs on that engine were know for providing quite good fuel metering, but were a bit slot to react to increased throttle. Depending on what year his cars is it may not have to comply with any, or very little. Also there is a very active after market for those old British cars, and such things as 5 speed transmissions, full coil over suspension kits, 4 wheel disk breaks (including a bigger rotors than the front disk break only cars had), better cams, roller rockers, better heads, headers, fuel injection, plus a bunch of other stuff I am probably forgetting. The A-series engines were in production until 2000 and were very underdeveloped.
The biggest reasons for the better mileage in the mini would be that it is lighter by a lot, it probably weight less than half of your Maxima. Depending on what year the mini is it has only limited or no emission controls. The mini has a very small engine, probably either the 1098cc or 1275cc A-series. Also the SU carbs on it are known for providing very good fuel metering, but weren't the quickest to respond to increased throttle. They didn't have power accessories, and if it is like my midget things like a horn were an option (mine doesn't have one). Those old A-series engines were very underdeveloped and I have read of people doing some crazy things with those little British cars like getting close to 200hp out of them, or converting them to hyper mileage cars and getting close to 70 mpg. I love seeing the races where they go and put a bunch of pre 75 midgets, sprites, minis, MGAs and morris minors all on the track and race them. You really can see that those are very capable little cars.
It has been done before, multiple times:
BMW Isetta
Messerschmitt KR200
Peel P50
HM Vehicles Free-Way This one was made in Minnesota in the late 70's and early 80's. Every once and a while I see one at a car show.
Sounds like my oldest son. He is only 2 and a half but loves to help dad "fix" things. He has discovered how to use the pop rivet gun, which is useful since the project of late has been putting in the new floor pans in my 68' MG Midget project car so I have actually gotten him to fix things instead of just pretending. Last summer he wanted to "fix" things which was basically give him a screw driver or wrench and let him poke some old crusty part and pretend, but this year he wants to actually help.
Hell I drove my dad's race car when I was 12. At the time it was a 75' Nova with a Chevy 350. It had about 300hp and ran low 14's in the quarter mile. I never did terribly well racing it, but it was fun as hell when you are 12. That was years ago and the minimum age at that time was 12 to drag race. I think now they go as low as eight, but I think it is from 8 to 14 you race the junior dragsters which are basically small dragsters with a motor cycle engine that run an eighth mile instead of the full quarter.
Unfortunately it wasn't an engineering class but was offered through the industrial arts department (i.e shop class) so I was the only person who had a science and technology background as the rest of the class was the standard jocks and grease monkeys. It would have been better if it was a class of other science dorks as they would have been open to ideas like more usage of composites.
It wasn't the dork squad as the class was mostly made up of the standard jock shop class crowd. I was the only one who really had a science and technology background as most of other guys were pretty much good a turning a wrench, some weren't even good at that. The worst thing was trying to convince that group that a composite frame would work and would weigh much less than a standard welded aluminum frame. This was early on for carbon fiber so that was out of the price range for a public high school, but fiberglass was. I never did convince them that it would work.
When I was in high school our school participated in these events. The competition was held up at Brainerd International Raceway and there were 2 categories, modified and unmodified. In the unmodified class you couldn't make any engine modifications but everything else was open. The engine you got was some small 4 stroke Briggs & Stratton. The team would then build the chassis and body around the engine. The goal being to create as light and aerodynamic vehicle as possible while reducing rolling resistance. Cars in the this call would typically get several hundred MPG. In the modified category you could also modify the engine, and modify was a pretty loose term given some of the mods that I had seen where about the only original parts were the block and pull string. Cars in this category would be up near or above 1000 MPG.
Now when actually competing you went and did one full trip on the track if your car passed inspection. You got a metered amount of fuel (I think it was about 1 quart of ethanol) and would roll the car out to the starting line. You would then be given the go ahead and the driver would use the pull string to start the engine (there was no clutch) so they would actually start to pull the vehicle up to speed. Once the engine started the car would reach speed at which point the engine is stopped and the vehicle coasts to a stop and then they cycle begins again until you complete your single lap. Once completed the remaining fuel is measured and you MPG is calculated.
Also female drivers are very common for these types of cars because they are smaller and lighter than guys. Typically our driver would be one of the team members girlfriend who was a gymnast or on the dance line. The passenger compartment would be built for them to drive it so as to cut down on as much weight as possible.
Your aren't off by much on the speed. In my high school we participated in events like this. I was the only one in the class that wasn't the the standard shop class kid as this was an elective offered only to juniors and seniors (you could take it all year both years). The competition was held up at Brainerd International Raceway and basically the engines have a pull string (think lawn mower) to start the vehicle and don't have multiple gears, so you pull start the vehicle and once up to speed shut the engine off and coast to a stop, then repeat until you are around the track. The fast ones top out at about 15mph.
I would also like to see some consumer protection and recourse for the customer who falls well below the averages, lets say 1 standard deviation, since they are not getting what they are paying for. This will never happen because this data would actually help the consumer and create a more free and open market for competition since large corporations prefer to have uninformed consumers.
Ok that makes sense. I do agree that most people consider any steel core ammo to be armor piercing eventhough alot of it, especially Chinese 7.62x39, just has mild steel cores as a cost saving measure. I mostly shoot hunting ammo either 154gr soft point 7.62x39 or 203gr soft point boat tail 7.62x54r, but that cheep Chinese surplus is tempting when you just want to waste some ammo on cans or paper.
Well no one was shot, only the ground. Eventhough the weapon unexpectedly discharged because it was being handled in a safe manner, maintain proper muzzle control, the bullet went in a perfectly safe direction into the rather swampy dirt a few feet out into the ravine we were shooting into.
Up to and including .30-06 still wouldn't include the .300 Winchester magnum. I also wonder how it would hold up to a .270 given that that is just a faster necked down .30-06.
True, I had forgotten about that ammo, body armor would have no problem stopping that.
This is why I hate the whole concept of warning shots, or brandishing a weapon. It is a great way to get someone hurt or killed.
I try to explain to people who don't know much about guns that I don't believe in accidental shooting in 99.99% of cases because is actually negligence. The remaining few are truly accidental shooting even once I had a firearm accidentally discharge, but because it is pointed down nothing bad happened other than the dirt got shot. The way it happened was some friends and I were shooting empty pop cans up north and ran the SKS out of ammo. When empty the bold is automatically held open so you can put more ammo in using a stripper clip. I put the safety on, reloaded, and pulled the bold back to close it. We the bolt closed it chambered a round (like it should), but because we had freezing rain (it was only about 25F out side) the firing pin froze forward and struck the primer discharging the round even with the safety on. This only proves why you should only point firearms at things you intend to shoot (or in this case a safe direction).
You don't even need to go all the way up to the .50BMG, any standard full power hunting round will do. Think things like .30-06, .308, .303, 7.62x54r, 300 Winchester magnum. Regular police body armor won't stop things like the .223 (5.56x45), 7.62x39, or .30-30 which are all fairly common hunting round for things up to white tail deer. Even S.W.A.T. armor would have issues with some of those especially with multiple shots fired. Add to the mix shotgun slugs which even if they are stopped by the armor (very unlikely if sabots are being used) will still cause serious damage. With this about all body armor is good against is are the common handgun rounds. The big handgun rounds offer power close to that of a rifle and would be almost* a hard for body armor to deal with. Luckily for law enforcement most criminals use handguns that are .38acp, 9mm, or .45acp as these are common for a semi auto pistol.
I give you that but then just add urinal to that list and it should be complete.
...want to know what Snooki smells like after a night at the bar?
My guess would be a mixture of baby diapers, puke, and rotting garbage, possibly with a dash of musty gym socks.
The collection of rain water from the capitol building being banned might also have to do with water rights, since I know that it is big deal in in that area of the country and those laws can be pretty bizarre as well.
Wow I had never head of that before. I thought Minnesota was bad for fees/taxes. At least here you just get the ticket (the base speeding ticket is like $120 or something) and it has your court date/pay by date and you are done. New York doesn't surprise me, but Georgia does. Don't let the Minnesota legislature know about this otherwise they will probably institute a police fee on all tickets to try and close the budget gap.
What kind of awful traffic tickets are you getting and where are you getting them so I know to avoid that area? When I have gotten them it has always been you pay $X by date Y where date Y is your court date.
Now this is a quality idea, if only I had mod points today.
You are basically correct. There are some exceptions but basically at will employment means that either party can terminate employment at any time.
Also you aren't the only person I have run across who didn't really grasp at will employment. At my previous job (a French company with a US branch) one of the new french employees came over to the US for about 2 months to work with our team and develop new marketing material for potential US customers. While here one of our people in our office was fired. He really was dead weight and spent most of his day burning DVDs rented from Netflix. This shocked her as this is unheard of in France. Thus we had to explain at will employment. The boss was a French guy, and you really had to screw up to be fired, but I have found this to be true at most companies, unless they are going to a re-org, or downsizing. As a side note even for someone who is fluent in English but it isn't their first or primary language "Who's on first" takes a lot explaining for them to understand why it is funny.
I believe that the Geek Squad existed before that, of course I could be wrong. At that point they weren't part of best buy but were an actual respectable company that did good work. I know in 97 I had them actually repair the screen on my laptop (a used dell with a 486 dx4 processor with 36MB ram). They actually disassembled it and fixed the screen which had a large orange rectangle in the upper right corner. I think it only cost like $25 or $30 at the time.